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Definition of lickspittle in English:

lickspittle

noun

‘Lately he was even guest of honour at the Press Complaints Commission bash, so delighted is he with the lickspittles that pass for our supposedly-fearless Fleet Street editors.’

‘Serfdom did not reach them, and they looked on European Russians as lickspittles and prided themselves on their lack of deference to the centre.’

‘No, his great and powerful enemies are America's local lickspittles.’

‘This is why you get all this thrashing about in the press and why we are drenched in the babble of the lickspittles and tintookies around them.’

‘The parties could put forward nominees, but it would be up to the commission to weed out the worthless lickspittles and the timid timeservers.’

‘Blogs, talk-radio and cable have exposed them lickspittles by forcing them into open conflict on ideas and facts.’

‘But if being a member of Cabinet means being a lickspittle who must stifle one's conscience for 30 pieces of silver because the PM says so, then the St Lucia Cabinet is no place for a woman of her integrity and courage.’

‘His spirit is cheerful throughout all of this: ‘I delight to do thy will, O God, ‘he cries joyfully, not as some obsequious lickspittle.’’

‘That proves he's a lickspittle slave of tyrants!’

‘A government that began with a Commons majority of 179 behaved in a lickspittle fashion towards its natural enemies.’

‘All the rest is a soap opera dreamed up by politicians and their lickspittles in the London media, just as mad Roman emperors gave their citizens bread and circuses to keep them from revolting.’

‘First, he explains his political position lest anyone accuse him of being a lickspittle of the aristocracy.’

‘As many recent examples make clear, the truth counts for nothing with the present administration and its fawning, talk-radio lickspittles.’

‘But last year the public outcry about these dirty deeds finally reached critical mass, shaming the drug companies' Washington lickspittles into looking at their shoes when their longtime patrons came calling for favors.’

‘And so, in classic bully fashion, he and his gang of lickspittles have decided to pick on the weaker kids instead.’